A cellist plays Bach in the ruined streets of his hometown.

LVIV, Ukraine — Denys Karachevtsev has performed his cello in a number of the most prestigious live performance halls in Austria, Japan and Turkey and even in Tunisia’s historic amphitheater, El Jem. Now he’s enjoying within the ruins of his Ukrainian hometown, Kharkiv.

In a lately posted video, Mr. Karachevtsev performs Bach’s somber Cello Suite No. 1 within the middle of a abandoned avenue strewn with the particles. His backdrop: the regional police headquarters, its home windows blown out by Russian shelling.

On Fb, he stated he hoped to attract consideration to the plight of town, Ukraine’s second largest, which has been bombed mercilessly by the Russian army. Ukraine’s police stated that as of March 20 greater than 600 multistory buildings in Kharkiv, together with faculties, had been destroyed.

“I’m a cellist and a citizen of Kharkiv,” Mr. Karachevtsev wrote in an attraction on Fb in English, Ukrainian and Russian.

“I really like my heroic metropolis, which is now struggling to outlive the battle,” he wrote. “I deeply consider that we may also help. I consider we are able to restore and rebuild our metropolis and our nation when the battle is over. I’m launching my venture within the streets of Kharkiv to boost funds for humanitarian help and restoration of town’s structure. Let’s unite to revive our metropolis collectively!”

In latest days, Mr. Karachevtsev has carried out the nationwide anthem of Ukraine within the metropolis middle.

Mr. Karachevtsev is a graduate of the Ukrainian Nationwide Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, within the capital, Kyiv. His efficiency known as to thoughts tales of Ukrainian musicians performing in excessive situations, like Vera Lytovchenko, who performed lullabies on her violin in a Kyiv bomb shelter. Or the skilled pianist Irina Maniukina enjoying Chopin’s Aeolian Harp Étude on a child grand piano that survived a missile strike on her hometown Bila Tserkva, earlier than leaving dwelling for the final time. The remainder of the condominium was coated in particles and shards of glass. As she sat all the way down to play, she brushed the patina of destruction off the keys.

In the course of the practically four-year siege of Sarajevo that resulted in 1996, Vedran Smajlovic performed Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor on his cello in ruined buildings, together with the Vijecnica, the Bosnian capital’s destroyed metropolis corridor. He additionally performed at funerals regardless of the specter of sniper fireplace. His highly effective music grew to become an indication of resilience and of the triumph of humanity over brutality.

Now it’s Mr. Karachevtsev doing the identical.